Bug#649451: hard-coded gzip-only support in apt-cdrom
Hi David,
First of all, apologies for the tone of my initial report - I was too
tired and frustrated and that shouldn't have tainted my words. :-(
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:03:08PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 01:26, Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> wrote:
>> I've just added support for translated description files into
>> debian-cd, creating Translation-$LANG.bz2 on CDs to match the
>> archive. A problem report from a user shortly afterwards described
>> apt-cdrom issues using a DVD generated with this new code. [1] I've
>> dug through the code in cdrom.cc and tagfile.cc and I've found that
>> apt simply does not support .bz2 versions of the Translation files
>> *from CD*. AFAICS it *does* support them in the main archive via HTTP
>> etc. That's a bit of a surprise, to say the least.
>
>I am not that surprised, given that apt-cdrom is touched only once
>in a blue moon - last serious change is from 2009 (udev), the one
>before that is adding Translation support in 2007, the 2005 change
>is imported from the previous vcs… You get the pattern.
>All in all its properly save to say that the code you looked at mostly
>comes straight from the last millennium (literally speaking!)…
Ouch, OK.
>My personal excuse is that i haven't used it a single time, so i am
>properly not the best one to hack on it, but i fear the rest of the
>(lets count optimistic) trio seems to have the same excuse…
>
>So after this little rant^Whistory lesson (which hopefully prevents you
>from expecting a response after 4 days next time as i could write more
>of these stories otherwise ;) ) i am willing to promise to try to have a
>look at it this week(end), if nobody else wants of course,
>but we need testers either way - volunteers?
>
>
>> As it is, on CDs/DVDs we're stuck with only using gzip for various of
>> the index files now until wheezy+1. That means we're going to be
>> wasting (maybe a lot) more space on CDs than necessary.
>
>You could ask stable managers for permission for a stable-upgrade.
>+squeeze1 already adds some xz parts (for apt-utils tools).
>Note though that squeeze doesn't support xz for index files
>downloadable from the net, as i implemented it only in 0.8.12 after
>hearing it the first time on debian-devel.
OK, that will help I guess. I could maybe find the time to help with
more generic compressed files support, and I've got the infrastructure
available to be able to test CDs easily at least. I can't promise much
with my rusty C++, but...
>Not that it had ever reached deity@ or even the bts. As it is usually for
>deities, they are expected to know everything and also before people even
>think about it…
:-(
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane... Of
course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell." -- Linus Torvalds
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